virtuous.
Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
Meaning & usage
Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.
Successful communities need strong, selfless leaders and a virtuous people.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English vertuous, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vertuous, vertous, ultimately from Late Latin virtuōsus, from Latin virtūs. By surface analysis, virtue + -ous. Doublet of virtuoso and piecewise doublet of virtùous.
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